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UNESCO – Hewlett Packard Partnership Piloting Solutions for Alleviating Brain Drain in
South East Europe
Database Construction and Computer-Human Interaction: Status and Plans
Ana Jerončić
October 2004 Meeting
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UNESCO – Hewlett Packard Partnership Piloting Solutions for Alleviating Brain Drain in
South East Europe
Sociological study hypothesis:1: Younger researchers ( 31-40 ) - more likely to emigrate.2: Never-married and divorced scientists - more likely to emigrate.3: Men more likely than women express a disposition to emigrate.4: Knowledge of English will positively affect disposition to emigrate.5: Publication activity will relate positively to dispositions to emigrate.6: Dissatisfaction with living conditions 7: Representatives of the natural sciences and the applied sciences will
exhibit higher propensity to emigrate than social scientists. 8: Dissatisfaction with the general state of science within the country. Overall
neglect of science and technology during this period of social cataclysms has promoted a sense of frustration, "weightlessness", and futurelessness among scientists and hence a disposition to seek ways for individual affirmation andprosperity outside Croatia.
9: Evaluation of the future perspectives of the employing scientific unit will be negatively related to disposition to emigrate.
10: Orientations to particular countries and regions will vary.
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UNESCO – Hewlett Packard Partnership Piloting Solutions for Alleviating Brain Drain in
South East Europe
......The project – part of it ....
TASK: Establish a comprehensive database of Croatian physicists all over the world.
AIM: enable/accelerate the communication between the physicists in the country and the ones currentlyliving abroad.
SUPPORT-NET enables fast knowledge/information exchange. In the long run this should elevate the quality of working conditions for physicist in Croatia.
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Defining what data to collect? – RESEARCH RELATED
7. Grants
Other activities:
Conferences/workshops organized and/or attended:
6. Professional development
5. Related/other experience
4. Research, technical and specialized skills
Teaching evaluations:
Innovation in teaching:
Courses taught:
Courses introduced/developed:
Academic/teaching experience:
3. Academic/teaching experience
Undergraduate work/degree(s), major/minors honors:
Graduate work/degree(s), major/minors, thesis/dissertation titles, honors:
Postgraduate work:
2. Academic background/education
1. Personal information
14. Comments
13. List of 10 most important publications
12. Professional/academic honors and awards
11. Foreign language abilities/skills
10.Affiliations/memberships
9. Academic/research interests
Community
Professional
University
8. Service
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UNESCO – Hewlett Packard Partnership Piloting Solutions for Alleviating Brain Drain in
South East Europe
Data collector – MySQL/Python database web-application
MySQL 4.0
Python 2.2Apache 2.0
IE, Mozilla
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UNESCO – Hewlett Packard Partnership Piloting Solutions for Alleviating Brain Drain in
South East Europe
Prerequisite: Server Installation & Configuration
OSOSweb server
1.Red Hat Enterprise AS (2.4.21-4-EL)(1donated PC)
A serious platform for the heavy tasks applications
2. Linux, kernel 2.4.25, Debian 3.1 (Sarge) distributionfor Itanium systems
CLUSTERING
(2 HP servers rx2600 with Itanium@2 dual processor)64-bit architecture
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UNESCO – Hewlett Packard Partnership Piloting Solutions for Alleviating Brain Drain in
South East Europe
Prerequisite: Server Installation & Configuration
SQLObject objectSQLObject object--relational relational mappermapper
MySQLdb Python databaseMySQLdb Python database2 additional Python packages: 2 additional Python packages:
Sendmail (SMTP) Sendmail (SMTP) Mail ServerMail ServerMySQL MySQL Database serverDatabase server
Advanced firewall Advanced firewall (arptables)(arptables)FirewallFirewall
Python 2.2Python 2.2Server Side Web ProgrammingServer Side Web ProgrammingApache 2.0Apache 2.0Web Server
Important server applications to installImportant server applications to install
Web Server
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UNESCO – Hewlett Packard Partnership Piloting Solutions for Alleviating Brain Drain in
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ENCOUNTERED PROBLEMS
Different software versions were not compatible!!! ☺
Instead of using RPM packages we had to edit some source codes and proceed installation manually
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UNESCO – Hewlett Packard Partnership Piloting Solutions for Alleviating Brain Drain in
South East Europe
Setting up an Apache web server Setting up an Apache web server –– local specificitylocal specificity
• Recognize Croatian charset = ISO- 8859-2(AddLanguage and Addcharset)
• Recognize .py files as CGI scripts
• Specify correct paths to the directories for HTML documents andCGI scripts.
(DocumentRoot and ScriptAlias variables)
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UNESCO – Hewlett Packard Partnership Piloting Solutions for Alleviating Brain Drain in
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Database construction Database construction
Table structure - automatic scripting create_table_people.pycreate_table_people.py
1 table – 1 record ~ 47 fields
Security and PermissionsThe name of the database, as well as the username (DB USER) and password (DB PASSWD) are specified in `config.py‘ file, not available online
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON <DB_NAME>.* TO <DB_USER>@"%"mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON <DB_NAME>.* TO <DB_USER>@"%"IDENTIFIED BY '<DB_PASSWD>';IDENTIFIED BY '<DB_PASSWD>';
Input
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UNESCO – Hewlett Packard Partnership Piloting Solutions for Alleviating Brain Drain in
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Homepage
Python modules
CGI initialization
Dynamic HTML
generation
CGI script – SQL query completion
SearchList of people
Application form
Personal record
About the project
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CPAW web site URL
http://okolis07.pmfst.hr/cpaw/index.html
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UNESCO – Hewlett Packard Partnership Piloting Solutions for Alleviating Brain Drain in
South East Europe
RESULTSRESULTS
So far so good … 171 entries of active physicists
From: faculties, institutes, industry
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UNESCO – Hewlett Packard Partnership Piloting Solutions for Alleviating Brain Drain in
South East Europe
RESULTS RESULTS -- troubleshootingtroubleshooting
INFORMATION OVERLOAD people are not very efficient when it comes tovoluntary registration on the web-site
COMPREHENSIVE APPLICATION FORM although not obligatory, may discourage the applicant
Going back to e-mails – personal touch
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UNESCO – Hewlett Packard Partnership Piloting Solutions for Alleviating Brain Drain in
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Elevating the cooperatiElevating the cooperativeve and knowledge level and knowledge level ––
NEW PROJECTS/PROJECT PROPOSALNEW PROJECTS/PROJECT PROPOSAL
Skills/knowledge needed!Skills/knowledge needed!
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UNESCO – Hewlett Packard Partnership Piloting Solutions for Alleviating Brain Drain in
South East Europe
INTERREG IIIINTERREG III project project –– regional importanceregional importance
““Environmental conservation and improvement of Adriatic coastEnvironmental conservation and improvement of Adriatic coast””
In cooperation with Italian and Albanian partners, interdisciplinary team of natural scientists including physicists is involved in natural conservation issues
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UNESCO – Hewlett Packard Partnership Piloting Solutions for Alleviating Brain Drain in
South East Europe
Gelato project proposal – in the submission
Users - champion the Linux Itanium platforms with high-performance computing
•Application - port and tune•Libraries and modules development (port and tune)•Packaging•Web services
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UNESCO – Hewlett Packard Partnership Piloting Solutions for Alleviating Brain Drain in
South East Europe
High energy physics
CERN’s FORTRAN applications (simulation, analysis, physics, etc.)
Class Library for High Energy Physics (not a stand-alone application, but a collection of matrix, rotation, rand-number classes,.)
Physics simulation toolkit (C++)
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UNESCO – Hewlett Packard Partnership Piloting Solutions for Alleviating Brain Drain in
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Bioinformatics
Sequence analysis applications : multiple/pair wise alignment applications (primary, secondary, tertiary structure), phylogenetic tree applications
Genomic database creation larger than 4Gb
Modules port and tune development for bioinformatics
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UNESCO – Hewlett Packard Partnership Piloting Solutions for Alleviating Brain Drain in
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Impact on local community of scientists Impact on local community of scientists
high-performance computing
Monte Carlo simulations
MD simulations
Different physical data analysis
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Contact: [email protected]
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UNESCO – Hewlett Packard Partnership Piloting Solutions for Alleviating Brain Drain in
South East Europe